David Neibert
SCCoA Admin
About 6 years ago my wife had a Viper alarm system installed on my 91. I don't usually use the alarm because the car is garaged and the battery tends to drain a little quicker with the alarm on. Normally I'll use the switch on the door to lock the car..and then use the remote fob to open the door locks. Since I manually lock the doors, the 1st press on the key fob relocks the doors and arms the alarm, the 2nd press unlocks the doors and dissarms the alarm.
Anyhoo...after work yesterday afternoon, I walk up to the car and press the remote and it chirps and arms the system...then nothing happens when I push it the 2nd time to unlock the doors. I try pressing the button several times, but the doors don't unlock.
As expected as soon as I unlock the door using a key and open it, the alarm goes off and the lights starting blinking on and off. I start the motor and still the alarm continues. Shut the motor off and still it continues.....after about 5 minutes of this crap in the parking lot, I decide to cut the speaker wire. I go back into work and find a pocket knife and when I come back out the car is silent and no lights are flashing...I open the door and it starts all over again
I cup my hand around the fob to see if the little green indicator light comes on when I press the button and yes it's coming on...never really looked at it before so I don't know if it's faint or not. As I'm pressing the button the alarm suddenly stops...humm. Get back into the car and close the door and the friggen thing starts up again.
It was at that point I opened the hood and cut the speaker wire. I was half expecting the ignition to go dead when I cut the wire, but luckily it didn't. I drove the car home with headlights on and other than hearing a clicking noise coming from beneath the dash and having dimmer than normal instrument lighting, everything was fine on the trip home.
Could this just be a case of needing new batteries in the key fob, or do I have bigger problems ? BTW, they did such a good job installing the alarm system, I don't even know where the control module/recevier is located.
David
Anyhoo...after work yesterday afternoon, I walk up to the car and press the remote and it chirps and arms the system...then nothing happens when I push it the 2nd time to unlock the doors. I try pressing the button several times, but the doors don't unlock.
As expected as soon as I unlock the door using a key and open it, the alarm goes off and the lights starting blinking on and off. I start the motor and still the alarm continues. Shut the motor off and still it continues.....after about 5 minutes of this crap in the parking lot, I decide to cut the speaker wire. I go back into work and find a pocket knife and when I come back out the car is silent and no lights are flashing...I open the door and it starts all over again
I cup my hand around the fob to see if the little green indicator light comes on when I press the button and yes it's coming on...never really looked at it before so I don't know if it's faint or not. As I'm pressing the button the alarm suddenly stops...humm. Get back into the car and close the door and the friggen thing starts up again.
It was at that point I opened the hood and cut the speaker wire. I was half expecting the ignition to go dead when I cut the wire, but luckily it didn't. I drove the car home with headlights on and other than hearing a clicking noise coming from beneath the dash and having dimmer than normal instrument lighting, everything was fine on the trip home.
Could this just be a case of needing new batteries in the key fob, or do I have bigger problems ? BTW, they did such a good job installing the alarm system, I don't even know where the control module/recevier is located.
David